Қайта жаңғыру және христиандық дәстүрлерін іздеу: Дэн Кимбаллдың көзқарасы

the 50th US Secretary of the Navy

Dan Kimball is an author and was a leading voice in the beginning years of the Emerging Church movement in the United States. Kimball's writings focus on encouraging churches and Christians to creatively make any changes needed in order to break the negative stereotypes of church and Christianity that inaccurately may exist. Kimball focuses on doing this through the arts, apologetics and Christians removing themselves from the Christian subculture. Kimball began using phrases such as "Vintage Faith" and "Vintage Christianity" which are used to express the desire to be returning to the historical and missional values of the original Christian Church and teachings of Jesus.

Kimball is a graduate of Multnomah Biblical Seminary and Western Seminary. He also has a doctorate in leadership from George Fox University. As part of this mission oriented vision using the arts, Vintage Faith Church opened a 7 day a week coffeehouse, art gallery and music venue in the church building called The Abbey in Santa Cruz, California.

Kimball serves as a faculty member and director of the ReGeneration Project at Western Seminary, and as adjunct faculty at other universities including George Fox University.

Much of Kimball's writings question the existing forms of church and their effectiveness in an increasingly post Christian culture. However, he stresses that while change in the church is needed, the historical doctrines of the Christian faith do not need to change. Much of his writings focus on ways that methods of worship, preaching, church structure, evangelism and leadership need to change in order to be missional in a post Christian or postmodern culture.